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  • Art and the Cold War. Esthetic Resistance
    Art and the Cold War. Esthetic Resistance

    Original title: Kunst ja külm sõda

    2024 | Documentary | Director: Sandra Jõgeva

    A story about the relationship between independent Soviet art and the West.

  • Madwomen - to be a sparrow not a canary
    Madwomen - to be a sparrow not a canary

    Original title: Varblane, mitte kanaarilind

    2023 | Other categories, Experimental | Director: Sten Haljak, Johannes Lõhmus

    An experimental found footage melodrama composed entirely out of film footage shot in Soviet Estonia from 1960 until 1969.

  • A Trace of Fire
    A Trace of Fire

    2021 | Short, Students film | Director: Diego Alejandro Barajas

    The trace of a fire that burns everything.

  • Burning porcelain
    Burning porcelain

    Original title in Estonian: Põlev portselan

    2021 | Exercises (Fiction), Students film | Director: Greta Liht

    The short film is made by first year film students. It tells a story of accepting one’s new self after a traumatic accident.

  • Four Stones
    Four Stones

    Original title: Neli kivi

    2021 | Cartoon, Animation | Director: Francesco Rosso

    I’m the monk and the lover, I’m the chosen one and the abandoned one, I’m the inbreath and the outbreath.

  • Uue ajastu kunstnik Edith Karlson
    Uue ajastu kunstnik Edith Karlson

    2021 | Portrait, Documentary | Director: Aljona Suržikova

  • Dawn of War
    Dawn of War

    Original title: O2

    2020 | Full length feature, Feature film | Director: Margus Paju

    A spy thriller about an Estonian intelligence officer, who has to track down a mysterious Soviet double agent on the eve of WWII.

  • Dryland
    Dryland

    2020 | Short, Students film | Director: Maria Reinup

    Dryland is a Drama set in the 1930’s Estonia, where two smugglers, Mirtel and Ari meet under strange circumstances with a goal to smuggle alcohol across to Finland.

  • Bad Hair
    Bad Hair

    Original title: Karv

    2019 | Short, Feature film | Director: Oskar Lehemaa

    Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

  • War on Boring Walls
    War on Boring Walls

    Original title: Sõda igavatele seintele

    2019 | Documentary | Director: Aleksandr Heifets

    An inventor, a street artist and an entrepreneur are making the world a better place, one wall at a time.

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